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Opportunity identification

The third step of an audit: documented processes are assessed for what AI can do reliably against them and, as importantly, what it cannot. Each candidate is weighed on how often it repeats, what the manual version costs in effort, whether the data it needs exists in a usable state and what regulatory exposure attaches to it. What comes out is a prioritised roadmap, each opportunity carrying the reason it sits where it sits.

What it means for a business

Candidates that are technically possible but not worth doing are named as such and set aside with the reason recorded, because a list that says yes to everything is not a prioritised list. EU AI Act and GDPR obligations are assessed here, inside the ranking, rather than added as a review at the end.

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